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When they couldn't find a performance catamaran for a price they could live with, longtime cruising sailors and YouTubers Matt and Jessica Johnson decided to build their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove took on a massive challenge competing in the Race to Alaska solo in an 18-foot catboat. Read or listen to his story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to live on the edge? Try running the bow of a 140-foot classic schooner for the first time at one of the world's showiest regattas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When he set out to restore an S&S Swan 37, 29-year-old Max Campbell had one plan in mind: to invite as many people as possible with him sailing across oceans. He has succeeded, and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing Editor Lydia Mullan tags along as an odyssey begins in the Mediterranean aboard a new Pegasus 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among many sailors, Maine is known as one of the East Coast's most stunning cruising grounds. But with a rich, deep history in shorthanded sailing, it's also the home-grown epicenter of American single-handed around-the-world ocean racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learning on the job as a first made aboard a sailing cargo ship in remote Pacific islands was adventure enough. Then came Covid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's it like to sail in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron and snorkel on the wrecks that make it famous? SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke went to find out.

Geoff Holt was 18 years old when a swimming accident made him quadriplegic. But that terrible event has spurred a lifetime of record-setting sailing and inspired him to create an organization that is bringing boating and sailing to people with all manner of disabilities.

The sailors who were involved in the rescue of the crew of the J/122 Alliance, which sank in the Gulf Stream during this year's Newport Bermuda Race, discuss safety lessons learned, large and small.

Starlink is becoming ubiquitous on sailboats, and the technology has now breached perhaps the world's last internet-free domain—the open sea—for better and, a few say, for worse. All agree on one thing: With Starlink, there is no going back.

Managing Editor Lydia Mullan shares her harrowing first person account of J/122 Alliance's sinking during this year's Newport Bermuda Race.

Jeanne Goussev has led teams in the Race to Alaska three times, winning the notoriously difficult race twice. Now, the founder of Sail Like A Girl is fighting a new battle against MS.

They'd weathered severe storms in this anchorage before, so they thought all was well when they dropped the hook in the same place. Then the world started tilting.

With the 37th America's Cup right around the corner, take a look into what new things you can expect from this year's evolution of the 173-year-old trophy.

One couple's determination to build a life together on the water brought them from boat hitchhiking to running a pioneering new Fountaine Pajot Smart Electric.

An idyllic pause in paradise has Lydia Mullan considering what we value most about being out on the water.

SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke has spent the spring and summer racing a Herreshoff 12 1/2 and can attest to the truth that after 110 years on the water, this is still one of the sweetest sailers out there.

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose.

The legendary Robin Lee Graham is doing a very different kind of sailing now than he was during his days aboard Dove. Emma Garschagen caught up with him in the mountains of Montana.

Shorthanded sailing has everything to do with preparation, thinking ahead, and practice. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove explains that on his boat, another key factor is keeping it simple.

Peter Harken, who co-founded Harken Inc., with his brother, Olaf, talks with SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke about growing up during wartime, organically developing a business one step at a time, the stupidest sailing there is, what kind of boats he'd sail if he were just starting out today, and the importance of fun.

Offshore sailing, and especially the niche of solo ocean racing, has never caught the attention of Americans or the U.S. media in the same way an event like the America's Cup once did—and even that was a generation ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Cole Brauer just changed all of that, and SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan has been in a unique position to see how it happened and to ask what it means.

Falling in love with an older boat is an affliction many of us have experienced. SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke is here to say, it's OK.

Boats and Their People is a new feature in SAIL to celebrate the special bond we have with some great older boats. In this first installment, meet John Stone and his Cape Dory 36, whose restoration helped heal him after he served in the war in Iraq and since has taken him on thousands of bluewater miles.

This year's Caribbean Multihull Challenge added several new components, continuing the evolution of this event that has turned multihull racing (and rallying) into something everyone can enjoy.

Sailing in light air can be challenging, and too often sailors reach for the engine start button instead of exploring how to make the most of these conditions. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove walks us through the mindset, tools, and techniques to improve your skills to make light air sailing more rewarding.

"Twenty-three feet of the jibboom were gone, snapped off like a tree limb." A week as crew aboard the Pride of Baltimore II fulfills a lifelong dream for one sailor, but are boat-breaking conditions more adventure than he bargained for?

We're all about learning heavy weather sailing skills, and our social media feeds are full of dramatic big-air waves and wind. But SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke makes the case that light air sailing is some of the most challenging—and rewarding.

SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan went looking for adventure in her first offshore race. In this summer's Annapolis to Newport Race, she got all of that and then some.

We've heard it all: Boats are expensive to buy and worse to maintain, cruisers are all geezers, and learning to sail is hard…Tim Coles wants to bust those myths and get more young people like himself out there living the dream.

There's almost something spiritual about maneuvering our boats under sail, but there's a lot that's practical about it too.

With a record-setting win and stories of redemption, triumph, and heartbreak, five intrepid sailors carry the Golden Globe Race's torch forward.

The redress results are in, and 11th Hour Racing Team has come out victorious in the round-the-world race's first ever IMOCA 60 class. In the race's 50-year history, they are the first American team to win the event.

Adventure sailing alone was her joy. So what would it be like sailing two months on the East Coast with her teenaged son?

The Race to Alaska is cold, wet, and slightly crazy. For one team, it took a weird mix of Vegemite, skill, luck, and Buddha to make it all the way.

Nearly 130 years ago, the 191-foot schooner barge Ironton collided with the freighter Ohio in a section of Lake Huron known as Shipwreck Alley. The accident sank both ships and killed five of the Ironton's seven crew. Now, she rises like a ghost from the past, as researchers have found Ironton pristinely intact on the seafloor of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

In calm waters within sight of land, the captain went overboard, and no else on board had a clue what to do. Read by Wendy Mitman Clarke

With the 2024 Summer Olympics right around the corner, SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan takes a look at the Nacra 17 and two sailors who are vying to represent the U.S. in this multihull class.

Starlit nights and trade wind sailing joined torn sails and boisterous seas on an 18-day Pacific passage for this cruising couple.

Bill Pinkney, who died unexpectedly last week at 87 years old, was lauded as the first Black sailor to circumnavigate solo via the five great capes. But to categorize him—as a Black sailor, an adventurer, a ground-breaker—is to circumscribe someone who consistently defied such narrow definition. In 2021, SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke had a chance to talk with him about his extraordinary life.

Alone in a sweet little 17-foot yawl he built himself, Steve Earley finds home in the waters less traveled. He's endured storms, cold, heat, and calms, and after thousands of solo miles, he's still just getting started.

The 73-foot maxi yacht Windward Passage is the stuff of yacht racing legend—built of wood beside a Bahamanian harbor, she sailed all over the world breaking racing records everywhere. While celebrating a remarkable boat, this beautiful book is also about the people who have sailed her, loved her, and cared for her through the decades and over the countless ocean miles.

Simon Fisher, The Ocean Race veteran and navigator for the winning 11th Hour Racing Team, has been awarded the Magnus Olsson Prize for his contributions to and impact on the sport of sailing.

In this episode of Point of SAIL, Principal Editor Adam Cort and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan talk about the Multihull Sailor summer issue, their favorite articles, and offer a behind the scenes look at SAIL.

In this episode of Point of SAIL, Principal Editor Adam Cort and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan talk about the May 2022 issue, their favorite articles and offer a behind the scenes at look SAIL.

In this episode of Point of SAIL, Principal Editor Adam Cort and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan talk about the April 2022 issue, their favorite articles and offer a behind the scenes at look SAIL.

In this episode of Point of SAIL Principal Editor Adam Cort talks with veteran professional sailor Capt. Donald Lawson about his plans to break a number of offshore sailing records over the next few years and also become the first African American to sail solo-nonstop around the world. To learn more about Capt. Lawson's efforts, you can also visit.

In this episode of Point of SAIL, Principal Editor Adam Cort and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan talk about the March 2022 issue, their favorite articles and behind-the-scenes at look SAIL.

In this episode of Point of SAIL, sponsored by West System Epoxy, Principal Editor Adam Cort talks with 2014 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year and five-time America's Cup sailor Terry Hutchinson about everything from the sailing he did as a kid to what it's like sailing in the red-hot TP52 class. Terry also offers some insights into the latest on the upcoming 37th America's Cup. To listen to more SAIL magazine “Point of SAIL” podcasts, click here. 

In this episode of Point of SAIL, Principal Editor Adam Cort and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan talk about the January/February issue, their favorite articles and behind-the-scenes at look SAIL.